Some graphics cards are worse than others, but you haven't seen the true definition of 'flop' before you've seen these five GPUs.
When you look at some of the best graphics cards of today, it’s easy to forget that Nvidia and AMD weren’t always the only players in the GPU game. While both AMD and Nvidia have committed their fair share of GPU blunders, they’re not the only two brands behind some of the worst GPUs of all time.
Related In the mid to late 1990s, Intel jumped on the 3D graphics acceleration bandwagon. The burgeoning PC gaming market, with titles like Doom, Quake, and Tomb Raider, was really starting to bring into focus just how much 3D graphics would matter in the future. Perhaps this was what tempted Intel to stray out of its primary domain — which, even back then, was making some of the best processors — and try to make discrete GPUs.
The graphics market was very volatile back then and evolved rapidly, so a flop like that must have been a setback for Intel. However, after a couple more attempts at making discrete GPUs, it switched to integrated graphics, where it found success for the years to come. Word of the chip’s poor 3D performance quickly got around, and the rapid shift from 2D to 3D in the gaming market didn’t help here. S3 attempted to fix what went wrong with future GPUs, such as ViRGE/DX and the ViRGE/GX, but it had pretty fierce competitors in Nvidia, ATI , and 3dfx. Ultimately, S3 couldn’t compete in the growing 3D market, although it kept making chips for the midrange segment.
NV30FlowFX - NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Fan Noise On paper, it sounded great. In reality, it was decidedly not. It did well enough in DirectX 8 games but struggled with certain DX9 titles, and ATI’s Radeon 9700 Pro was an enticing alternative that didn’t have the same issues. However, the main problem with the FX 5800 Ultra was the noise.
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